Active disturbance rejection control approach to stabilization of lower triangular systems with uncertainty

In this paper, we apply the active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) to stabilization for lower triangular nonlinear systems with large uncertainties. We first design an extended state observer (ESO) to estimate the state and the uncertainty, in real time, simultaneously. The constant gain and the time‐varying gain are used in ESO design separately. The uncertainty is then compensated in the feedback loop. The practical stability for the closed‐loop system with constant gain ESO and the asymptotic stability with time‐varying gain ESO are proven. The constant gain ESO can deal with larger class of nonlinear systems but causes the peaking value near the initial stage that can be reduced significantly by time‐varying gain ESO. The nature of estimation/cancelation makes the ADRC very different from high‐gain control where the high gain is used in both observer and feedback. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

自抗扰控制对具边界扰动和区间内反阻尼的波动方程的镇定

本文讨论边界具有外部扰动和区域内具有反阻尼的一维波动方程的的镇定问题. 主要的方法是后退反演变换和自抗扰控制方法. 即通过扩张状态观测器将扰动在线估计并在反馈控制中实时消除. 本文在扩张状态观测器中使用了两种增益调整策略——常数高增益与时变增益. 为避免常数高增益带来的峰值问题, 在控制环节中使用了饱和方法. 时变的增益可以在很大程度上减少扩张状态观测器中由于常数高增益引起的峰值问题同时可以达到完全消除干扰的镇定效果.     

Active disturbance rejection control approach to output‐feedback stabilization of lower triangular nonlinear systems with stochastic uncertainty

In this paper, we apply the active disturbance rejection control approach to output‐feedback stabilization for uncertain lower triangular nonlinear systems with stochastic inverse dynamics and stochastic disturbance. We first design an extended state observer (ESO) to estimate both unmeasured states and stochastic total disturbance that includes unknown system dynamics, unknown stochastic inverse dynamics, external stochastic disturbance, and uncertainty caused by the deviation of control parameter from its nominal value. The stochastic total disturbance is then compensated in the feedback loop. The constant gain and the time‐varying gain are used in ESO design separately. The mean square practical stability for the closed‐loop system with constant gain ESO and the mean square asymptotic stability with time‐varying gain ESO are developed, respectively. Some numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed output‐feedback control scheme. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Output feedback stabilization of an unstable wave equation with general corrupted boundary observation

We consider boundary output feedback stabilization for an unstable wave equation with boundary observation subject to a general disturbance. We adopt for the first time the active disturbance rejection control approach to stabilization for a system described by the partial differential equation with corrupted output feedback. By the approach, the disturbance is first estimated by a relatively independent estimator; it is then canceled in the feedback loop. As a result, the control law can be designed almost as that for the system without disturbance. We show that with a time varying gain properly designed, the observer driven by the disturbance estimator is convergent, and that all subsystems in the closed-loop are asymptotically stable in the energy state space. We also provide numerical simulations which demonstrate the convergence results and underline the effect of the time varying gain estimator on peaking value reduction.     

Extended state observer for MIMO nonlinear systems with stochastic uncertainties

ABSTRACT

In this paper, both linear extended state observer (ESO) and nonlinear ESO with homogeneous weighted functions are proposed for a class of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) nonlinear systems composed of coupled subsystems with large stochastic uncertainties. The stochastic uncertainties in each subsystem including internal coupled unmodelled dynamics and external stochastic disturbance without known statistical characteristics are lumped together as the stochastic total disturbance (extended state) of each subsystem. The linear ESO and nonlinear ESO are designed separately for real-time estimation of not only the unmeasured state but also the stochastic total disturbance of each subsystem. The practical mean square convergence of these two classes of ESOs are developed. Some numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the ESOs with the advantages of smaller peaking values and more accurate estimation by the nonlinear ESO.     

基于时变增益ESO的航天器无源姿态跟踪控制

针对修正罗德里格参数描述的航天器姿态运动模型,利用扩张状态观测器(ESO)研究无角速度测量下的无源姿态跟踪控制问题.首先,为了削弱常值增益ESO中的峰化现象,设计一种时变增益ESO对角速度和系统的总干扰进行估计;进一步考虑航天器姿态运动的无源特性,结合互连和阻尼分配无源控制(IDA-PBC)理论及backstepping思想设计跟踪控制律;最后,从理论上对闭环系统的稳定性进行严格证明.仿真结果验证了所提出控制方法的有效性.     

Active disturbance rejection control to MIMO nonlinear systems with stochastic uncertainties: approximate decoupling and output-feedback stabilisation

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we apply the active disturbance rejection control, an emerging control technology, to output-feedback stabilisation for a class of uncertain multi-input multi-output nonlinear systems with vast stochastic uncertainties. Two types of extended state observers (ESO) are designed to estimate both unmeasured states and stochastic total disturbance which includes unknown system dynamics, unknown stochastic inverse dynamics, external stochastic disturbance without requiring the statistical characteristics, uncertain nonlinear interactions between subsystems, and uncertainties caused by the deviation of control parameters from their nominal values. The estimations decouple approximately the system after cancelling stochastic total disturbance in the feedback loop. As a result, we are able to design an ESO-based stabilising output-feedback and prove the practical mean square stability for the closed-loop system with constant gain ESO and the asymptotic mean square stability with time-varying gain ESO, respectively. Some numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed output-feedback control scheme.     

Control of the common rail pressure in gasoline engines through an extended state observer based MPC

In this paper, a model predictive control (MPC) solution, assisted by extended state observer (ESO), is proposed for the common rail pressure control in gasoline engines. The rail pressure dynamic, nonlinear with large uncertainty, is modeled as a simple first order system. The discrepancy of the model from the real plant is lumped as ``total disturbance'', to be estimated in real-time by ESO and then mitigated in the nonlinear MPC, assuming the total disturbance does not change in the prediction horizon. The nonlinear MPC problem is solved using the Newton/generalized minimum residual (GMRES) algorithm. The proposed ESO-MPC solution, is compared with the conventional proportional-integral-differential (PID) controller, based on the high-fidelity model provided in the benchmark problem in IFAC-E-CoSM. Results show the following benefits from using ESO-MPC relative to PID (benchmark): 1) the disturbance rejection capability to fuel inject pulse step is improved by 12% in terms of recovery time; 2) the transient response of rail pressure is improved by 5% in terms of the integrated absolute tracking error; and 3) the robustness is improved without need for gain scheduling, which is required in PID. Additionally, increasing the bandwidth of ESO allows reducing the complexity of the model implemented in MPC, while maintaining the disturbance rejection performance at the cost of high noise-sensitivity. Therefore, the ESO-MPC combination offers a simpler and more practical solution for common rail pressure control, relative to the standard MPC, which is consistent with the findings in simulation.     

Heterogeneous consensus of higher‐order multi‐agent systems with mismatched uncertainties using sliding mode control

A robust consensus controller is proposed for heterogeneous higher‐order nonlinear multi‐agent systems, when the agent dynamics are involved with mismatched uncertainties. A distributed consensus protocol based on a time‐varying nonhomogeneous finite‐time disturbance observer and sliding mode control is designed to realize the network consensus of higher‐order multi‐agent systems. The time‐varying finite‐time disturbance observer overcomes the problem of peaking value near the initial time caused by the constant gain one and is designed to estimate the uncertainties and to mitigate the effect of mismatched uncertainties during the sliding mode. To eliminate the chattering phenomenon and ensure finite‐time convergence to the sliding surface, the control law is designed by using the super twisting algorithm. Finally numerical simulations are given to illustrate the validity of the proposed method. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于双曲正切函数的二阶时变参数扩张状态观测器

当传统扩张状态观测器(ESO)的状态初值与系统的状态初值相差较大时,普遍存在微分峰值现象.为了消除这种现象,本文给出了用双曲正切非线性函数构造ESO的一般形式,并且用Lyapunov函数证明了二阶ESO的误差系统为渐近稳定.然后又利用双曲正切函数自身的饱和特性,设计出一种时变ESO,可以实现微分峰值的有效抑制.最后,把这种ESO的仿真结果与经典ESO的仿真结果进行对比,表明这里提出的ESO能够有效抑制微分峰值现象,并可以获得系统状态变量和非线性扰动的精确估计.     

一类高阶非线性系统的级联自抗扰控制

针对类似板球系统的一类高阶、强耦合、不确定非线性系统,利用backstepping算法的思想,提出以多个低阶自抗扰控制器级联实现控制的方法.通过各低阶自抗扰控制器的扩张状态观测器观测出各级对象的内外扰动,然后进行补偿,较好地解决了高阶非线性系统的不确定性、耦合性及干扰抑制问题.以板球系统的轨迹跟踪控制为例进行研究,所得结果表明,该方案适用于复杂高阶非线性级联系统的控制,具有良好的动态特性及鲁棒性.     

On convergence of active disturbance rejection control for a class of uncertain stochastic nonlinear systems

In this paper, the practical mean-square convergence of active disturbance rejection control for a class of uncertain stochastic nonlinear systems modelled by the Itô-type stochastic differential equations with vast stochastic uncertainties is developed. We first design an extended state observer (ESO) to estimate both the unmeasured states and the stochastic total disturbance which includes unknown internal system dynamics, external stochastic disturbance without known statistical characteristics, unknown stochastic inverse dynamics, and uncertainty caused by the deviation of control parameter from its nominal value. The stochastic total disturbance is then cancelled (compensated) in the feedback loop. An ESO-based output-feedback control is finally designed analogously as for the system without uncertainties. The practical mean-square reference tracking and practical mean-square stability of the resulting closed-loop system are achieved. The numerical experiments are carried out to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Boundary stabilization of a cascade of ODE‐wave systems subject to boundary control matched disturbance

In this paper, we are concerned with a cascade of ODE‐wave systems with the control actuator‐matched disturbance at the boundary of the wave equation. We use the sliding mode control (SMC) technique and the active disturbance rejection control method to overcome the disturbance, respectively. By the SMC approach, the disturbance is supposed to be bounded only. The existence and uniqueness of solution for the closed‐loop via SMC are proved, and the monotonicity of the ‘reaching condition’ is presented without the differentiation of the sliding mode function, for which it may not always exist for the weak solution of the closed‐loop system. Considering that the SMC usually requires the large control gain and may exhibit chattering behavior, we then develop an active disturbance rejection control to attenuate the disturbance. The disturbance is canceled in the feedback loop. The closed‐loop systems with constant high gain and time‐varying high gain are shown respectively to be practically stable and asymptotically stable. Then we continue to consider output feedback stabilization for this coupled ODE‐wave system, and we design a variable structure unknown input‐type state observer that is shown to be exponentially convergent. The disturbance is estimated through the extended state observer and then canceled in the feedback loop by its approximated value. These enable us to design an observer‐based output feedback stabilizing control to this uncertain coupled system. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Extended state observer for uncertain lower triangular nonlinear systems subject to stochastic disturbance

The extended state observer (ESO) is the most important part of an emerging control technology known as active disturbance rejection control to this day, aiming at estimating “total disturbance” from observable measured output. In this paper, we construct a nonlinear ESO for a class of uncertain lower triangular nonlinear systems with stochastic disturbance and show its convergence, where the total disturbance includes internal uncertain nonlinear part and external stochastic disturbance. The numerical experiments are carried out to illustrate effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Nonidentifier‐based adaptive control for nonlinearly parameterized systems with measurement uncertainty

For a family of nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainty in both state and output equations, we prove that global adaptive regulation is still achievable by output feedback. The bounds of the time‐varying parameter at the system output are unknown, and the class of nonlinear systems is assumed to be dominated by a triangular system that satisfies a linear growth condition with a polynomial output‐dependent rate. The result presented in this article has incorporated and generalized recent advances on robust output feedback control of nonlinear systems with output uncertainty, all of them are required to satisfy a linear growth condition with a constant rate. A nonidentifier‐based universal controller is proposed with a high gain estimator, rather than observer, whose gain is updated in a dynamic fashion. It is shown that a single dynamic gain is sufficient for dealing with the unknown parameter at the system output and the system parametric uncertainty simultaneously.     

The active disturbance rejection control approach to stabilisation of coupled heat and ODE system subject to boundary control matched disturbance

We consider stabilisation for a linear ordinary differential equation system with input dynamics governed by a heat equation, subject to boundary control matched disturbance. The active disturbance rejection control approach is applied to estimate, in real time, the disturbance with both constant high gain and time-varying high gain. The disturbance is cancelled in the feedback loop. The closed-loop systems with constant high gain and time-varying high gain are shown, respectively, to be practically stable and asymptotically stable.     

Extended filtering high‐gain output feedback controller for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems subject to external disturbances

In this article, an extended filtering high‐gain output feedback controller is developed for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems subject to external disturbances. The nonlinearities under consideration satisfy a semiglobal Lipschitz condition. The proposed control architecture integrates the extended state observer (ESO), high gain, and low‐pass filter together. None of them is used alone. The ESO can not only estimate the unknown internal state, but also deliver a good property of disturbance rejection simultaneously due to the presence of high gain. Since the high gain deteriorates the robustness of the system, a low‐pass filtering mechanism is added in the control law to filter away aggressive signals and recover the robustness. The filtering control law is designed to compensate the nonlinear uncertainties and deliver a good tracking performance with guaranteed stability. The matched uncertainties are canceled directly by adopting their opposite in the control signal, whereas a dynamic inversion of the system is required to eliminate the effect of the mismatched uncertainties on the output. Since the virtual reference system defines the best performance that can be achieved by the closed‐loop system, the uniform performance bounds are derived for the states and control signals via comparison. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the novel design via comparisons with the model reference adaptive control method and L₁ adaptive controller.     

基于扩张状态观测器的车辆横摆稳定模型预测控制器设计

针对车辆横摆稳定性控制问题,本文提出一种基于扩张状态观测器的线性模型预测控制器设计方法.首先,将非线性车辆模型线性化,建立带有模型误差干扰项的线性模型,其中线性化导致的模型误差采用扩张状态观测器估计得到,并证明了观测器的稳定性.然后基于此模型设计线性预测控制器,近似实现了非线性预测控制器的控制效果,同时降低了计算量.最后,通过不同路况下的仿真实验结果,验证了所提方法的计算性能和控制效果.     

Active Disturbance Rejection Control for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems With Sporadic Measurements

This paper deals with the problem of active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) design for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with sporadic measurements. A novel extended state observer (ESO) is designed in a cascade form consisting of a continuous time estimator, a continuous observation error predictor, and a reset compensator. The proposed ESO estimates not only the system state but also the total uncertainty, which may include the effects of the external perturbation, the parametric uncertainty, and the unknown nonlinear dynamics. Such a reset compensator, whose state is reset to zero whenever a new measurement arrives, is used to calibrate the predictor. Due to the cascade structure, the resulting error dynamics system is presented in a non-hybrid form, and accordingly, analyzed in a general sampled-data system framework. Based on the output of the ESO, a continuous ADRC law is then developed. The convergence of the resulting closed-loop system is proved under given conditions. Two numerical simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control method.      

Output‐feedback control strategies of lower‐triangular nonlinear nonholonomic systems in any prescribed finite time

In this paper, output‐feedback control strategies are proposed for lower‐triangular nonlinear nonholonomic systems in any prescribed finite time. Specifically, by employing the input‐state–scaling technique, the controlled systems are firstly converted into lower‐triangular nonlinear systems, which makes it possible to study such systems using the high‐gain technique. Then, by introducing a scaling of the state by a function that grows unbounded toward the terminal time and proposing a high‐gain observer–prescribed finite time recovering the system states, the output‐feedback regulation control problem in any prescribed finite time is firstly achieved for nonlinear nonholonomic systems with unknown constant incremental rate. Moreover, by designing another time‐varying high gain, the output‐feedback stabilization control problem in any prescribed finite time is then achieved for nonlinear nonholonomic systems with a time‐varying incremental rate. Finally, a numerical example is introduced to show the effectiveness of proposed control strategies.